Quite right. In fact, those statisticians in the posted article are surely mistaken. We know that using tricks to hide things is sound science.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cr... http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cr...

Since it was sound science in 2009, why would it not be now?